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ISADORE ROSEN, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;73(5):476-479.

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When I was a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Dr. George Henry Fox was Professor of Dermatology and Dr. Robert W. Taylor was Professor of Genito-Urinary diseases and Syphilis. Both Dr. Fox and Dr. Taylor were charter members of the American Dermatological Association. Mention should be made of the fact that in the European clinics dermatology and venereal diseases were under one department head. When Dr. John A. Fordyce accepted the Chair of Dermatology at Columbia University in 1912 it was with the understanding that syphilis would be transferred to his department.

The progress made in our knowledge of syphilis has all taken place since the early part of the present century. Up to that time those of us connected with that specialty can recall that the disease was treated solely from a clinical standpoint, one never knowing when a patient was really cured. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb. 7, 1956.

Consultant Dermatologist, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Consultant Dermatologist and Syphilologist, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center.

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